The Story of the World for Children of the British Empire, Book 4W. Blackwood & Sons, 1903 |
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... known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest peaks in the world , never scaled by man . Here , too , rise the largest rivers in India - the Indus and the Ganges , on which most of the large towns are built ...
... known as the Hima - laya , or snow abode . Here are some of the highest peaks in the world , never scaled by man . Here , too , rise the largest rivers in India - the Indus and the Ganges , on which most of the large towns are built ...
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... known as a Maha - raja or Great Raja , and all these words are used in India to - day . In the sixteenth century a race of Mongols or Moguls swept into India from Central Asia and Marco Polo 1 had Mongols when he founded an empire in ...
... known as a Maha - raja or Great Raja , and all these words are used in India to - day . In the sixteenth century a race of Mongols or Moguls swept into India from Central Asia and Marco Polo 1 had Mongols when he founded an empire in ...
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... though the scheme seemed wild to the point of madness , he was given command of 200 Europeans and some native troops to march against the town . Arcot was sixty - five miles away . The fort was 1751. ] ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN INDIA . 11 ...
... though the scheme seemed wild to the point of madness , he was given command of 200 Europeans and some native troops to march against the town . Arcot was sixty - five miles away . The fort was 1751. ] ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN INDIA . 11 ...
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Margaret Bertha Synge. 1751. ] ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN INDIA . 11 known to be garrisoned by 1100 men , but Clive marched bravely forth . During the march a terrific storm arose . The rain swept down in a deluge on the little army , the ...
Margaret Bertha Synge. 1751. ] ENGLISH AND FRENCH IN INDIA . 11 known to be garrisoned by 1100 men , but Clive marched bravely forth . During the march a terrific storm arose . The rain swept down in a deluge on the little army , the ...
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... known as Bengal . Now the Nawab of Bengal hated the English . His imagination was fired with fabulous stories of the vast wealth stored up in the treasury at Calcutta So he collected a huge army , and in the year 1756 he appeared on the ...
... known as Bengal . Now the Nawab of Bengal hated the English . His imagination was fired with fabulous stories of the vast wealth stored up in the treasury at Calcutta So he collected a huge army , and in the year 1756 he appeared on the ...
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Page 121 - Ye are brothers ! ye are men ! And we conquer but to save ; So peace instead of death let us bring ; But yield, proud foe, thy fleet, With the crews, at England's feet, And make submission meet To our king.
Page 169 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 129 - May the great God whom I worship, grant to my country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious victory, and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it, and may humanity after victory be the predominant feature in the British fleet!
Page 24 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Page 169 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 138 - Burke, moved even to tears, exclaimed, "It is not a chip of the old block; it is the old block itself.
Page 169 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow, But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 115 - THE boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but he had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shoae round him o'er the dead.
Page 218 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
Page 41 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.